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Join our sacred gathering on Sundays normally at 6 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting at 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
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January 20, 2013
Eighth Sunday of Via Creativa
co-creativity...seed planting...birthing....cosmogenesis...
art as meditation...imagination...discipline...possibility...play...asthetic...
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
at
Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
Reflection by The Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt Gathering Leaders:
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Stewart
Greeter/Usher: Suzie Robertson
Reader/Communion Assistant: Suzie Robertson
and Tom Good
Offering Invitation: Kim Hinken
Community Hour Host: Adri Eathorne and Kim Hinken
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right temporarily defeated
is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
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Be Our Guest ~
Never attended Evolve Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community? Join us at sacred gathering and check out our community without OPAS (Offering Plate Anxiety Syndrome). Print this coupon, bring it in, put it in the offering basket and be our guest. One guest each evening receives our welcome bread--a homemade loaf usually with cinnamon, vanilla and raisins.
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More about EVOLVE Chesapeake: Affiliated Organizations
Evolve Chesapeake uses the ideals and ideas of Creation Spirituality Communities, Progressive Christianity.org, and EvolutionaryChristianity.com Click here to access our webpage with links to these organizations. Each one of them promotes understanding of Christian practices and teachings that leads to a greater concern for the way people treat each other rather than for the way people express their beliefs. This acceptance of all people and a respect for other religious traditions is paramount. We as a community encourage work that eases pain and suffering as well as the degradation inherent in many religions and cultures in the name of God. We consider a Christian life should be fair, open, peaceful, and express a loving treatment of all human beings and Creation. To be like Jesus is to follow his example, not hold onto a doctrine about him.
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January Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
January 6, 1944 Marvin Roger Woods Birthday (d. 9/11/01)
January 7 Cindy Kuzma Birthday
January 8, 2001 Delores Van Steenberg death
January 8, 2013 Cy Hosley death * January 9, 1926 Lee R. Warren Birthday (d. 1/12/06) January 14 Cynthia Greene January 17, 1945 Linda J. Kahl Birthday (d. 5/6/1998) January 18, 2000 Jacob Taylor Abell Birthday January 26 Suzie Robertson Birthday
January 28 Rick Dove Birthday January 28 Richard Cashen * We learned that our dear elder companion, Cy Hosley, died on the morning of January 8th. Our hearts are with him and with all his family.
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Evolve Chesapeake Community Retreat
The Board of Directors is preparing a community-wide retreat for companions, and last Sunday we had a community forum to hear about it and discuss it. The plan is to have the retreat on March 8-10, 2013 at Greenwell State Park.
In our sacred gatherings of the season of INvent:Co-Create, we have received much food for thought about the Divine, our lives, and our faith practices. This has helped to prepare us for a time apart with each other to explore and to share about our spiritual paths, the efforts that enrich us, and those practices that diminish our awareness of our own holiness.
We are happy to be "Companions on a Journey" together! We see this upcoming retreat as an important opportunity for us both personally and as a community, so that we will continue evolving towards the deep dreams and big hopes we share for the future.
If you wish to contact Pastor Wayne with questions or feedback about this (SchwandtW@aol.com), he would be glad to hear from you. We hope as many as possibly can will be able to make the retreat. |
Women's Spirituality Group
Kathy Baker would like to offer to convene a women's spirituality group if there is enough interest. If you would like to get together twice a month on a Wednesday evening, please e-mail her with your ideas for topics (other evenings possible but first meeting will be on a Wednesday). This group would likely meet for several months and start out in Edgewater.
Please send notice of your interest to Kathy Baker at k3b@comcast.net.
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 Reading Group
The next meeting of our Reading Group will be 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 2nd at PANERA in FESTIVAL AT RIVA. We are reading the last two Parts of Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non- Religious World by John Shelby Spong. With this we will have finished the book and will look for a new one. So far, three titles have been proposed: Help, Thanks, Wow by Ann Lamont, The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, and Original Blessing by Matthew Fox. We hope more Companions will join us in our meetings and we invite you to help us choose our next book. If there are other titles of interest to you, let us know. Remember, besides being an interesting learning experience, our book group is also a great opportunity to just be together! Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com. |
Open Arms will Welcome You
JANUARY 22, 2013
This is a discussion group that meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM, usually at the home of various Companions. We share a meal, often provided by the host, or a carry-out. Discussion, fun, and getting to know each other better have always been a part of these groups. Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com for details. ALL are welcome! |
Weekly Food & Goods Collection for Pantry
Help those in need by bringing to our Sunday gathering, an item or two for the local food bank whenever you can. Most welcome are pantry staples (tinned meat and fish, boxed pasta products, infant formula, etc.) and personal care products such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, disposable razors, bath/shower soap, deodorant, dish soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygiene products. Collection is ongoing every Sunday.
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Have you tried this easy way to raise funds for
Evolve Chesapeake's Ministry
at no cost to you through iSearch and iGive?
Every time you search the web you could be raising a penny for Evolve Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community.
iSearchiGive.com is a search engine powered by Yahoo! and is the internet's first online shopping mall where a portion of each purchase is donated to your favorite cause. Try it today - it's free!
After you click on the above link, in the upper right corner will be "CLICK HERE TO ADD ISEARCHIGIVE TO YOUR BROWSER." Make it your default search engine and earn a penny for every search. Every penny counts!
When you shop online, always go through www.iGive.com! Register Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community as your charity and shop away! As of 1-17-2013 Evolve Chesapeake has earned $1,517.03 from shopping through iGive.com and using iSearch.com. Thank you!
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Other Ways to Support our Ministry:
Books for Sale at our Welcome Table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong,
Marcus Borg, and more.
We also have Note Cards for Sale
Beautiful nature photography by Rick Dove.
See sample below. There are many others to choose from.
"God is in all things and all things are in God."
Your used cell phones and empty ink jet and toner
cartridges can also help fund our ministry.
These items fit nicely in the offering basket along with remembrance of time and talent you have offered to our ministries and your financial gifts. Bring them to Gathering with you.
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Today as I go through this day
I see more unknowns
than the knowns.
I think what can I do
and each I ask has -
has something different to say.
In the end,
it is the steps
I take into the unknown,
knowing I'm not alone,
an experiment,
an opportunity to be something
new, different, and myself...
So I need to decide
* Should I be purified water
or the finest wine?
Only my creator and I know...
Only us...
* from John 2:1-11
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Rufous Hummingbird Thrives in Winterby Rick Dove
My procrastination finally paid  off. Long after the summer
visitors to my hummingbird
feeder had departed for their
winter home, my feeder hung like a lone beacon in the
leafless maple tree. I'll get around to it, I kept telling myself.
While I was lazily watching out my window as the chickadees pulled sunflower seeds from their feeder, a quick movement and a flash of tan caught my eye. There it is again; what was it? I ran for my camera, focused on the hummingbird feeder, and snap. I knew I had taken a photo of some kind of hummingbird but why was it here this time of the year?
My bird guide confirmed it was a juvenile Rufous hummingbird, a small, beautiful, tan and green bird that generally lives in the western states and Alaska but winters mainly in Mexico. So what was it doing in Crofton? Did it make a wrong turn someplace over the Rocky Mountains? Did it forget to pack the GPS for its journey?
The cold winter days seem so much warmer as I watch my hummingbird curiously explore the yard then zip back to the feeder for a meal of nectar, sometimes taking a break on a tree branch as the cold wind, snow  and sleet blow over him. Rufous hummingbirds can handle temperatures down in the single digits without problems. I keep a heat lamp on the feeder to prevent the nectar from freezing.
This Rufous hummingbird passed over many places on its migration flight. I'll never know why he chose my home; I'm just glad he did.
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GAIN(Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network)
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Become an individual member of Creation Spirituality Communities by clicking here, or sign up as a participant in the online community for free! Join our community, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community, and participate in the discussion. For more information and to sign up, go to www.CreationSpirituality.info. Join the online group, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality.
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